#35

A Late 19th Century Cabinet Doll House with Provenance Known as "The Koppel House"
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$9,500
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Description

49"h. x 25"w. x 14"d. A simple pinewood cabinet with glass-front double front doors has 6 rooms on 4 floors; the two bottom floors have glass windows at the sides and painted windows at the upper floors. The lower floor is the kitchen with typically larger scale contents including a metal stove with brass oven doors, brass towel bar and a kettle, 2 pots and a boiler, 2 wooden work tables, hanging wooden shelf and plate rack, hanging utensil rack, 2 tin scalloped edge shelves and 2 matching corner shelves, and equipment comprising wooden plates, tray, cutting tray, bucket, salt, 2 tin sieves, iron wood, porcelain rolling pin and a copper mold. On other floors are 2 bedrooms, a large salon, dining room and breakfast room, each with old paper and curtains, electrified with 2 chandeliers. The furnishings include: 13 pieces Biedermeier case goods such as baby bed, marble top buffet with ivory columns, corner table, 2 pianos and a game table; 8 piece Biedermeier seated pieces; very fine early walnut dining pedestal table with 5 chairs and settee; early wooden Gothic style bedroom suite with canopy bed, corner cupboard, blanket chest, and deacon's bench. Accessories include an unusual tin fire screen, shaving mirror, miniature art glass vase, brass wine cupboard and hanging vitrine, magazine rack, brass bird cage, fancy silvered compote, brass and copper parlor stove, and clocks. There are four dollhouse dolls. In the living room there is a miniature newspaper "Die Gartenlaube" in which is inscribed a birthday greeting from Aunt Henriette Ree to Doritha Koppel on her 4th birthday in 1878. According to Museum records, the house was later acquired by a family Nielsen, probably from the Danish island Langeland, who later emigrated to America. In the mid-20th century Estrid Faurholt acquired the house, and later it passed to the Lego Foundation Museum along with the entire Faurholt Collection. Circa 1880.